Last semester, I approached my CORE 111 writing seminar class with apprehension. I had always heard how ruthless college writing courses could be. I expected unachievable grading standards, especially ...

When Avery Nixon started college in fall 2021 at Montclair State University in New Jersey, she was anxious about her writing proficiency after struggling academically in high school. But on her first ...

In our classes, rough drafts were always a little too rough. Grading the rough draft was not an accurate impression of how far the student was from the final draft. Considering something better than a ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. This past weekend, I graded a round of essays in my first-year writing course. With three sections of ...

In our many years as college writing instructors, we’ve graded thousands of student essays. This year, motivated by students' trauma during the pandemic, we stopped. Don’t get us wrong: We still ...

States Went All In on Sports Gambling — and Young Men Are the Losers Audio By Carbonatix “Antiracist” grading is actually more racist than the status quo. American University is hosting a seminar next ...